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Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Tue May 25th at 1:37am 2004

A guy from EA called me earlier today. That was neat. [addsig]



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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Tue May 25th at 1:41am 2004

Did he try to buy out Nightwatch?



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Tue May 25th at 1:45am 2004

I think it was just a security guy warning Andrew not to come near their offices again. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Tue May 25th at 4:39am 2004

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I think there is a valuable lesson to be learnt here. EA sucks

Battlefield? SimCity 4? C&C Generals?


Medal of Honor, Freedom Fighters, The NEW bond isn't half bad either (Everything Or Nothing, crappy name, fun game).

mmm, I can't wait for Pacific Assult ... maybe I'm just a WWII FPS junkie [addsig]



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Posted by GreenDragon on Tue May 25th at 5:21am 2004

.. the old nfs games...

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Posted by scary_jeff on Tue May 25th at 8:36am 2004

EA didn't actually make those games though did it?



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Posted by Crono on Tue May 25th at 10:20am 2004

In the same sense you can say UbiSoft hasn't made one Tom Clancy game to date since they're just a production company and don't physically make the games

All the games that we listed have been released under EA or Westwood (which was bought by EA years ago, Westwood just did some of the C&C stuff, however they also did Nox, which kicks ass). [addsig]



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Posted by Thylacine on Tue May 25th at 11:11am 2004

I don't know about the other games, but EA own half of Dice (Digital Illusions) and also have a hand in part of the development process of the Battlefield Series. [addsig]



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Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Tue May 25th at 1:01pm 2004

EA and UbiSoft both have solid internal development houses as well as external licenses to other developers. Freedom Fighters, for example, was developed by Io (a European company), where the Medal of Honor series (post-allied assault) is developed in EA's California studio. Same with Ubisoft - Far Cry is external, games like Prince of Persia are internal. So they're both publishers and developers. Both I'm assuming also own other studios in addition to signing individual contracts - much like Raven is owned by Activision, for example. [addsig]



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Tue May 25th at 1:40pm 2004

Or Rare being owned by Microsoft.

I'm not bitter. [addsig]



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Posted by ReNo on Tue May 25th at 2:33pm 2004

Meh, Rare are overrated I think. Goldeneye was great, but considering their FPS division split off and formed Free Radical, who now make the Timesplitters series, there isn't much to like about Rare in my opinion. [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Tue May 25th at 5:21pm 2004

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Medal of Honor series (post-allied assault) is developed in EA's California studio


Allied Assault being the only good one in the series



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Tue May 25th at 8:50pm 2004

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Medal of Honor series (post-allied assault) is developed in EA's California studio


Allied Assault being the only good one in the series


If you bad mouth the original console versions again, I will crush you. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Tue May 25th at 9:19pm 2004

What are you talking about?? Spearhead beat the s**t out of Allied Assult, burnt it, and pissed on the ashes! However, Allied Assult is very good, but Spearhead is better Or are you refering to PC vs Console crap?

The PSX console games kicked ass (First MOH and Underground). The PS2/GC/XBOX/GBA ones suck balls though.

KFS, I was talking about just release companies and not actual developers, I'm well aware of the difference [addsig]




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